No to Solar and No to Clean-up No to Solar and No to Clean-up
So much for the Government's much touted commitment to alternative energy. The New York Times reports that the Bush administration has placed a nearly two-year moratorium on the co...
Jul 1, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Shelling Out for Shell Shelling Out for Shell
Free trade... Free oil contracts... There it is again, that cute word "free." Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had th...
Jun 20, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Of Weddings and Wedges Of Weddings and Wedges
In times like these, when many people's rights and benefits are shrinking, it's easy for the Right to set us at each other's throats. And if the past is any guide, that's just what...
Jun 17, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Russert (and a Million Others) RIP Russert (and a Million Others) RIP
If there was one topic that focused media attention this weekend, it was the death of one of the industry's own: Tim Russert. Russert's passing provoked praise and grief and mourni...
Jun 16, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Big Oil “Saved?” Big Oil “Saved?”
The Windfall Profits Tax Monster Is Back," so headlined the Houston Chronicle. The GOP's defeat of a bill that would have put a 25% excess, or "windfall" profits ta...
Jun 11, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Was Gloria Steinem Right? Was Gloria Steinem Right?
Want to see my two cents on the question of whether Gloria Steinem was right? This Saturday at the 2008 National Conference on Media Reform, Roberto Lovato and I were asked to comm...
Jun 9, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Stop the Next My Lai Stop the Next My Lai
The New York Times saw fit to mark the fifth anniversary of the US invasion by inviting nine "experts" including not one soldier to reflect on the conduct of the war and ...
Mar 17, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Talking to Nader Talking to Nader
The independent candidate discusses Obama, healthcare, and why the heck he's running.
Mar 7, 2008 / Feature / Laura Flanders
Raise the Bar Raise the Bar
Grassroots Democrats, parched for their party's attention, should play hardball with candidates on Iraq.
Feb 14, 2008 / Laura Flanders
Obama from Butte Obama from Butte
If Barack Obama's South Carolina win was a "black" thing, it's awfully strange how it's going down in Butte. US towns don't come much whiter or more hope-resistant than t...
Jan 29, 2008 / Laura Flanders